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Eilish’s Quotes

“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: guns, nonviolence, pacifism, poetry, poetry-love-spirituality, poets, violence, war-and-peace

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“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

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“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.”
― Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

tags: anxiety, desire, goals, hopes, life, respite

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“Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: inner-strength

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“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

tags: catalyst, change, defiance, history, opposition, self-assurance

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